He Jifeng

He Jifeng
何积丰
Prof. Jifeng He speaking at the BCS London office in 2018
BornAugust 1943 (age 81)
Shanghai, China
NationalityChinese
Alma materFudan University
Known forUnifying Theories of Programming
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science, formal methods
InstitutionsEast China Normal University
University of Oxford
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
United Nations University
Tongji University
Websitewww.jfai-sh.com

He Jifeng (simplified Chinese: 何积丰; traditional Chinese: 何積豐; pinyin: Hé Jīfēng, born August 1943) is a Chinese computer scientist.[1][2]

He Jifeng graduated from the mathematics department of Fudan University in 1965.[3] From 1965 to 1985, he was an instructor at East China Normal University. During 1980–81, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of San Francisco in California, United States.[2]

From 1984 to 1998, He Jifeng was a senior research fellow at the Programming Research Group in the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science).[2] He worked extensively on formal aspects of computing science. In particular, he worked with Prof. Sir Tony Hoare, latterly on Unifying Theories of Programming, resulting in a book of that name.

Since 1986, He Jifeng has been Professor of Computer Science at East China Normal University in Shanghai.[4] In 1996, he also became Professor of Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

In 1998, he became a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST), United Nations University, based in Macau.[2] He moved back to Shanghai in 2005.

He Jifeng's research interests include sound methods for the specification of computer systems, communications, applications, standards, and techniques for designing and implementing those specifications in software and/or hardware with high reliability.[2]

In 2005, he was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2013, his 70th birthday was celebrated at East China Normal University with an international three-day Festschrift in association with the International Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC).[5][6] Ten years later in 2023, his 80th birthday was celebrated at the Shanghai Science Hall with a hybrid international two-day Festschrift Symposium.[7][8] Since 2019, he has been a Distinguished Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai.[2]

  1. ^ "He Jifeng". www.namesviews.com. Brainstorm. Archived from the original on September 9, 2012. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Bowen, Jonathan P.; Zhu, Huibiao (2023). "Jifeng He at Oxford and Beyond: An Appreciation". In Bowen, Jonathan P.; Li, Qin; Xu, Qiwen (eds.). Theories of Programming and Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Jifeng He on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 14080. Springer. pp. 3–18. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-40436-8_1. ISBN 978-3-031-40435-1.
  3. ^ "He Jifeng computer software expert". Hangzhou Institute of Service Engineering], Hangzhou Normal University. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
  4. ^ He Jifeng Archived 2012-02-27 at the Wayback Machine, East China Normal University, China.
  5. ^ "Festschrift Symposium in Honor of He Jifeng". Shanghai, China: East China Normal University. 1–3 September 2013. Archived from the original on September 26, 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  6. ^ Liu, Zhiming; Woodcock, Jim; Zhu, Huibiao, eds. (2013). Theories of Programming and Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Jifeng He on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 8051. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39698-4. ISBN 978-3-642-39697-7. S2CID 28825617.
  7. ^ "Webinar: Jifeng@80: Theories of Programming and Formal Methods". BCS. 15–16 September 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  8. ^ Bowen, Jonathan P.; Li, Qin; Xu, Qiwen, eds. (2023). Theories of Programming and Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Jifeng He on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 14080. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-40436-8. ISBN 978-3-031-40435-1. S2CID 261585921.